The nutritional composition and hypoglycaemic effect of crackers produced from blend of sprouted pigeon pea, unripe plantain and brewers’ spent grain and fed to Alloxan induced diabetic rat was investigated. Crackers were produced from different blends of sprouted pigeon pea, unripe plantain and brewers’ spent grain. The crackers were evaluated for proximate composition, amino acid profile and ...

n-Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (Zwischenferment) was discovered by Warburg and Christian in 1931 (1, 2). An active preparation was obtained then from horse erythrocytes and in 1932 from the Lebedev juice made from brewers’ yeast (3). Because of its extreme specificity, this enzyme has become an important analytical tool. Various preparations of it have been described, the first being those...

Six Lactobacillus strains were analyzed to select a bacterium for conversion of brewers' spent grain (BSG) into lactic acid. Among the investigated strains, L. acidophilus ATCC 43121 showed the highest yield of lactic acid production (16.1 g/L after 48 hours) when grown in a synthetic medium. It was then analyzed for its ability to grow on the hydrolysates obtained from BSG after acid-alkaline ...

The quality assurance of the two Brewer spectrophotometers of the Finnish Meteorological Institute is discussed in this paper. The complete data processing chain from raw signal to high quality spectra is presented. The quality assurance includes daily maintenance, laboratory characterizations, calculation of long term spectral respon-5 sivity, data processing and quality assessment. The cosine...

Previous reports from this laboratory (R. K. Rasmussen and H. P. Klein, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 28:415, 1967) indicated that many organic compounds can stimulate the acetylcoenzymeA (CoA) carboxylase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain LK2G12. The enzyme from this organism appears to differ from that reported by Matsuhashi et al. (Biochem. Z. 340:243, 1964; Biochem. Z. 340:263, 1964), who...